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In heterogeneous cellular networks (HCNs), it is desirable to offload mobile users to small cells, which are typically significantly less congested than the macrocells. To achieve sufficient load balancing, the offloaded users often have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-22 Sarabjot Singh , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We propose a four-stage hierarchical resource allocation scheme for the downlink of a large-scale small-cell network in the context of orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA). Since interference limits the capabilities of such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Sanam Sadr , Raviraj S. Adve

Heterogeneous cellular networks with small cells densely deployed underlying the conventional homogeneous macrocells are emerging as a promising candidate for the fifth generation (5G) mobile network. When a large number of base stations…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Yong Niu , Chuhan Gao , Yong Li , Li Su , Depeng Jin

The growing demand for mobile data services in dense urban areas has intensified the need for energy-efficient radio access networks (RANs) in future 6G systems. In this context, one promising strategy is cell switching (CS), which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Maryam Salamatmoghadasi , Amir Mehrabian , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Georges Kaddoum

Self-organizing networks (SONs) can help manage the severe interference in dense heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Given their need to automatically configure power and other settings, machine learning is a promising tool for data-driven…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Roohollah Amiri , Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Hani Mehrpouyan

Heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) are to be deployed for future wireless communication to meet the ever-increasing mobile traffic demand. However, the dense and random deployment of small cells and their uncoordinated operation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Weili Nie , Fuchun Zheng , Xiaoming Wang , Shi Jin , Wenyi Zhang

Small cell networks have recently been proposed as an important evolution path for the next-generation cellular networks. However, with more and more irregularly deployed base stations (BSs), it is becoming increasingly difficult to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-27 C. Li , J. Zhang , K. B. Letaief

In cellular wireless networks, user association refers to the problem of assigning mobile users to base station cells -- a critical, but challenging, problem in many emerging small cell and heterogeneous networks. This paper considers a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Changkyu Kim , Russell Ford , Yanjia Qi , Sundeep Rangan

In order to cope with the ever increasing traffic load that networks will need to support, a new approach for planning cellular networks deployments should be followed. Traditionally, cell association and resource allocation has been based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Gabriel Otero Pérez , Manuel Fernández Veiga

Heterogeneous base stations (e.g. picocells, microcells, femtocells and distributed antennas) will become increasingly essential for cellular network capacity and coverage. Up until now, little basic research has been done on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Ping Xia , Han-Shin Jo , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In this paper, we consider a heterogeneous repository of drone-enabled aerial base stations with varying transmit powers that provide downlink wireless coverage for ground users. One particular challenge is optimal selection and deployment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nima Namvar , Fatemeh Afghah , Ismail Guvenc

This study deals with the problem of optimizing transmit power in high density heterogeneous networks. In the communication network, effective methods of allocating transmit power, in order to reduce the total transmit power, but still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Nguyen Doan Hieu , Dao Le Thu Thao , Tran Manh Hoang

We study a heterogeneous two-tier wireless sensor network in which N heterogeneous access points (APs) collect sensing data from densely distributed sensors and then forward the data to M heterogeneous fusion centers (FCs). This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi , Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani

The performance of cellular system significantly depends on its network topology, where the spatial deployment of base stations (BSs) plays a key role in the downlink scenario. Moreover, cellular networks are undergoing a heterogeneous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Yifan Zhou , Zhifeng Zhao , Qianlan Ying , Rongpeng Li , Xuan Zhou , Xianfu Chen , Honggang Zhang

The life of the modern world essentially depends on the work of the large artificial homogeneous networks, such as wired and wireless communication systems, networks of roads and pipelines. The support of their effective continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Dmitry Yu. Ignatov , Alexander N. Filippov , Andrey D. Ignatov , Xuecang Zhang

We present a general mathematical framework for optimizing cell deployment and antenna configuration in wireless networks, inspired by quantization theory. Unlike traditional methods, our framework supports networks with deterministically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi , Giovanni Geraci , Hamid Jafarkhani

In this paper, we aim to maximize the energy efficiency of cellular wireless networks. Specifically, we address the power allocation problem in multi-cell multi-carrier systems. Considering realistic base station power consumption models,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Kemal Davaslioglu , Cemil Can Coskun , Ender Ayanoglu

Hybrid parallelism techniques are essential for efficiently training large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, current automatic parallel planning frameworks often overlook the simultaneous consideration of node heterogeneity and dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ruilong Wu , Xinjiao Li , Yisu Wang , Xinyu Chen , Dirk Kutscher

Recently heterogeneous base station structure has been adopted in cellular systems to enhance system throughput and coverage. In this paper, the uplink coverage probability for the heterogeneous cellular systems is analyzed and derived in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Haichuan Ding , Shaodan Ma , Chengwen Xing , Zesong Fei , Jingming Kuang

In cellular networks, the locations of the radio access network (RAN) elements are determined mainly based on the long-term traffic behaviour. However, when the random and hard-to-predict spatio-temporal distribution of the traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-25 Irem Bor-Yaliniz , Halim Yanikomeroglu